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Author: Theboy_2
Date: 2003-06-20 00:41
Does anyone know of the woodwinds used in Celtic music?
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Author: Gnomon
Date: 2003-06-20 06:51
There's no such thing as Celtic Music. The Celts split up into a diverse bunch and ended up as Irish, Scots, Welsh, and Breton, each with their own musical tradition.
Scottish music uses the Great Highland Bagpipe. Irish music uses uilleann pipes, flute and tin whistle (along with fiddles and more recently mandolins and guitars). Breton music uses a Breton bagpipe and the Bombard which is a primitive shawm similar to a very loud oboe (about the same volume as a trumpet). Welsh music seems to be mainly vocal - I've never heard of it using woodwinds.
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Author: Barb
Date: 2004-03-10 11:27
Welsh music used to be mainly vocal!!!!What about the pibcorn....a single reed woodwind instrument made from animal horn and a wood or bone pipe......It's been in the British Isles for the last two thousand years and became localised in Wales by around 1600 and extinct by 1900?
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